Even when 'The Daily Show' hit close to home, it was hard not to laugh.

The following speech by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves -- Mississippi's second African American federal judge -- has been shared widely since it was read in his courtroom on February 10. The occasion was a sentencing hearing for the perpetrators of a modern-day lynching: the brutal murder of James Craig...

This week's same-sex marriage ruling from Rankin County shows the hostility to LGBT rights among some of Mississippi's elected judges.

As Faulkner instructs, the past is never dead. But lingering Confederate sympathy among Mississippians – flaring in the wake of the University of Mississippi's diversity and inclusion report – proves that it is often misremembered.